Hello, welcome back to go natural English the difference between a fluent English speaker and someone who is
struggling to speak English is
Clear the key is consistency
That means using English a little bit each day in this English tip lesson. I'm going to share
17 ways that you can use English
Every day for free and they don't take a long time now you don't need to do all
17 of these every single day you can pick and choose
Start with one that you find interesting and then when you want more ideas to do something different you can revisit
This video make sure you watch all the way to the end because I'm going to tell you how you can learn
English with me
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Now let's begin with number one. It is so important to
Not wait until your English class or your English tutoring session to use English
We need to find ways to
Immerse you in English each day
That means consuming contents in English one simple thing that you can do right now while you're watching
YouTube videos is to turn the captions or subtitles on in English
just click on the settings and turn the CC on and that way you can read and
Watch this lesson at the same time
The more inputs the better having subtitles on doesn't hurt your English
You're simply able to exercise your reading skills and your listening skills at the same time
you might try watching for the first time with the subtitles on and then the second time put the subtitles off and
See how much you understand or if you want to challenge you can reverse that and watch the first time with no subtitles
See how much you understand and then watch the video again a second time with the captions on
Now on that note of consuming English a little bit each day. I highly recommend that you listen to a daily
Podcast now if you like to stay up to date on world events
The perfect podcast for you is the daily from The New York Times
It's about 20 minutes long, which is perfect. It's not too long
Not too overwhelming and 20 minutes for me fits
Perfectly in my routine going to the gym or commuting to work
Or if you walk a dog or need to do some chores at home 20 minutes is a great length of time
So I recommend starting with the daily
It might be a little bit advanced because it's meant for native English speakers. So if it is too difficult
don't give up just
Revisit it in
a few weeks and see if it's easier to understand a big mistake that a lot of English learners make is that you
Consume a lot of English materials, which is good
But you stop there just because you can understand what you're listening to or what you're reading
Doesn't make you fluent in English fluency means that you're able to communicate
Your ideas in English through writing or speaking
So make sure that when you are consuming materials, you're also writing and speaking to
Practice speaking. You could Shadow the podcast you're listening to or this video right now
For writing you could write some notes on what you listen to what did you learn?
What was interesting or were there any new words that you'd like to look up afterwards? So make sure that you're not only
Reading or listening to English that you're also speaking and writing another big mistake
A lot of English learners have that's keeping them from fluency is lack of vocabulary
We need to build your vocabulary a little bit each day
So think about how you could add new to your vocabulary one way that I love doing
This is looking at the word of the day on the merriam-webster
dictionary
Website so each day. It's simple they give you a new word
That's usually a little advanced and you can write it down and try using it in your journal in your own
Sentence another mistake that English learners often make is trying to translate
Everything in your head when you're speaking
However to improve your writing skills
you should translate and
Actually, it can be a really good exercise for you to try
translating from English to your native language and really observe make note of how the
languages express the same ideas
Sometimes very differently
If you would like a fun exercise to translate from English to your native language
Try translating this video. There's a link in the description
here on YouTube to
Translate this video and once you do that
Your name will appear in the description as well as a thank you. A lot of you might use social media
Maybe you use Facebook or Instagram or Twitter?
On social media don't just be an observer
fine accounts to follow or
friends who speak English and take time to
comments in
English on their posts or join a conversation in a group
this is a really important way for you to develop your English skills because
Writing for me was a great way for me to work on my Spanish skills. I remember when I was learning Spanish
I would follow
accounts on
Facebook that
spoke Spanish and I would comment on their posts in Spanish and it was a great feeling to see that people could
Understand what I was trying to say. It's simple it's easy
It's fast and its really good for shy learners. If you don't feel quite ready to speak with native speakers
Try using English on social media a little each day
Okay one mistake is to constantly focus on learning new things. It's great to learn new vocabulary
expressions phrases grammar, but
It is actually even more important to review what you've already learned it can take
20 times seeing the same word for you to understand and remember
The meaning the pronunciation and how to use it in your own sentences
Actively. So remember to review and be patient with yourself because really almost no one even native
speakers
Remember a word after the first time they see it. We need to repeat and review
many many times
The next tip might seem a little
woowoo, or
difference but I think it's really important to
Envision yourself as a fluent confident English speaker. It's like meditation or
visualization or
affirmations
Take a minute each day. Close your eyes and imagine
Yourself in a situation where you're speaking English fluently
Maybe you're giving a presentation in English
Or maybe you're at a dinner with friends or coworkers and you're having a great conversation
in English
I want you to see yourself in that situation in your mind
Because this helps to prepare you to make you feel familiar and therefore more confident when these
Situations occur in real life. So use the power of your mind
to improve your English fluency in order to create a new reality where you are a
Fluent confident English speaker, we have to envision it first before it becomes reality
Next don't wait for someone to start a conversation with you in English
No native English speaker is going to come knocking on your door to start a conversation with you
You need to be the instigator start a conversation with someone in English today
it could be someone in person if you're so lucky to live in a place with other native English speakers, or
It could be on social media online and it doesn't have to be with native English speakers. It could be with any
English speaker at all
Next don't depend on other people to tell you when you're making
mistakes
Each day. You can try speaking English
It could be free speaking
If you're more advanced where you just speak whatever is on your minds
or it could be shadowing another material that you're listening to simply copying what you hear and
Record yourself. This is so helpful
If you record yourself
You can listen, you can playback your speaking and notice where you might be making mistakes
Or maybe where your pronunciation is a little off and that is the first step to improving your English skills
Here's another tip for actually using English in real life
think of a websites a product a service that you use
where it's an english-speaking company and
you can actually
contact their support
Maybe you have a question about the product or the service a lot of websites nowadays have chats for customer service
So you could actually practice your English
while you're asking questions about a product or service you're interested in and some businesses still have
Old-fashioned phone lines so you could go ahead and practice your English for telephone calls
By calling a company that's of interest to you
Next you've probably heard this many times before but listen to music every day in English and don't just listen
Sing enjoy yourself put emotion into this song because emotion
feelings
movement dancing will help you to improve your English because these are all ways that help our body and our
Mine's to remember words and in many songs. You can pick up new vocabulary
so choose a song that you enjoy learn the lyrics sing it dance it and
Enjoy using English if you have no idea where to start
I will share that one of my current favorite artists is SIA. So I recommend that you start there
Next I have a personal tip to share. Hope you don't mind
but if you live in a city and where there's tourism you could look at taking a tour where
People would be speaking English with english-speaking tourists
I recently did this with an Airbnb experience where I did a historical walking tour in
English as a participant and this was a really fun way to use English in real life
Of course, I don't need to practice my English because I'm a native speaker
But I could imagine that doing something like this in English could really help you and I've done other Airbnb
Experiences where the leader and the group we're speaking Portuguese and that really helped me to develop my language skills as well
Next don't try to do everything
Don't try to become fluent in English
right away just
Break down your goals into smaller steps and choose one small thing each day
in fact
Give yourself a deadline make an appointment with yourself each day to practice English
so this is more of a strategic tip or a
motivational tip to help you with your to help you with your discipline when I
Really want to improve my skills in an area or I really want to get something done
I actually make an appointment with myself using Google Calendar
to do that thing to use
Portuguese to practice Portuguese to read a little bit
So this is more of a strategic tip
But you can use this to make sure that you don't forget or you don't or you don't
Oh, I don't have time today maybe tomorrow
Create the time don't just depend on outside sources for English. I talked a lot about listening to podcasts
music writing in your journal
Looking up a word of a day and many other things but you can actually use English in your own mind throughout the day
Try creating sentences. Oh, right
now I am eating lunch and then I'm going to go to the gym or
Whatever is happening in your day. You could describe people that you're seeing
Oh, that woman has a really beautiful dress
And so you're actually narrating your day in English
The next tip that's related is when you go to bed at night before you sleep try
Recapping or summarizing your day in English. So oh, I woke up at 6 a.m
Then I had breakfast and so on and this will really help your fluency
Do this each night before bed and you might be surprised that pretty soon you'll start dreaming in English
Our second-to-last tip is that you at home can label different objects around your house
so this will help you to improve your vocabulary when you actually put a sticky notes on an item at home and
Label it with the correct vocabulary. That way you're seeing English everywhere you go
finally last but not least perhaps my favorite way to use English each day is to think about how you could use English to
help
Someone or to make someone's day a little bit better. Could you give someone a compliment?
Could you tell them that they look nice today or?
That they have a nice dress on or their hair looks nice
Maybe like their earrings just saying or could you offer to help someone maybe?
You see someone who's struggling who needs help to do something and you can offer to help in
English I still remember years ago when I was living in Japan and I was inside a subway station
Completely lost I had no idea
where I
Had no idea how to get where I was going and a very nice Japanese woman
stopped and offered to help me with directions and it was so simple, but so nice I really
felt like
People were there to help me and so perhaps you could help another English speaker today or make them feel good with the compliments
Whoo?
All right, that was 17 tips for using English on a daily basis to improve your fluency
Confidence and speaking skills now I promised that I would tell you about how to be my student
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